2 x FQF 2500 12-barrel launchers for a total of
120 anti-submarine rockets

The design of the Type
052 or Luhu class destroyer was originally conceived during a time
of Sino-American detente, and was therefore schemed with a high
proportion of US weapons and equipment. The latter included General
Electric LM 2500 gas turbines that were, in the event, among the
little US equipment that was in fact exported to China. It is worth
noting that the gun mountings are of a new enclosed type, and that
full helicopter facilities (flight platform and hangar) are located
over the after part of the hull with a French helicopter-handling
system.

Following the 1989 embargo on the delivery of US military equipment
to China in the aftermath of the Tianenmen Square massacre, though
was given to the use in planned future units of different gas
turbines, possibly of Soviet design, but in the event the class was
terminated at just the original pair of ships. The second of them is
powered by gas turbines purchased from the Ukraine.

Ordered in
1985 but then delayed by the greater priority afforded to the
construction of ships ordered by Thailand, these ships are the
Harbin, laid down at the Jiangnan shipyard in November 1990 and
commissioned in July 1994, and the Qingdao, laid down at the same
yard in January 1993 and commissioned in March 1996.

By Chinese
standards the two Luhu class destroyers are highly capable, and
feature notably compact container launchers for two types of
anti-ship missile (the YJ-8A (CSS-N-4 Sardine) and C-802 (CSS-N-8
Saccade), a
Crotale surface-to-air missile launcher over the forward
superstructure, a modern 100-mm gun, and modern French electronics
including radars, sonars and a combat data system.